by University of Florida Jennifer Dungan. Credit: University of Florida When diagnostic tests for the heart were first created, scientists at the time did not fully consider that no two bodies are the same, especially between the sexes. According to University of Florida College of Nursing associate professor Jennifer Dungan, many of the current symptom...
by Max Planck Society Human neuronal networks, mapped from different parts of the cerebral cortex. Connectomic comparison to mouse revealed massively expanded interneuron-to-interneuron networks in human. Credit: Loomba, Helmstaedter, MPI for Brain Research The analysis of the human brain is a central goal of neuroscience. However, for methodological reasons, research has largely focused on model...
by University of Miami Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the John T. Macdonald Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have found that inherited mutations in the MINAR2 gene caused deafness in four families. The gene variation mostly affects the...
by Georgia Institute of Technology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause catastrophic consequences. One spiral wave creates tachycardia—a heart rate that’s too fast—and multiple spirals cause a state of disorganized contraction known as fibrillation. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology offer a new method to...
JUNE 23, 2022 / 6:05 AM / CBS/AP Health officials on Wednesday recommended that men in Florida who have sex with other men get a meningococcal vaccine following what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called “one of the worst outbreaks of meningococcal disease among gay and bisexual men in U.S. history.” The CDC said in a...
By Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D. Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. Erectile dysfunction is a common sexual abnormality in men. The condition is characterized by the inability to get or keep an erection during sexual activity. New regenerative therapies have shown promising outcomes in restoring the structure and function of affected erectile tissues. Image Credit:...
By Hidaya Aliouche, B.Sc. Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Antibiotic treatment alters the composition and magnitude of got microbiota species. Overall, antibiotics reduce species’ diversity and include the loss of key functional taxa, resulting in shifts in metabolism, increasing the susceptibility of the gut to colonization, and the stimulation of bacterial antibiotic resistance. The therapeutic...
Smoking increases the risk of developing schizophrenia by between 53% and 127% and depression by 54% to 132%, a report by academics from the University of Bristol has shown. More research is needed to identify why this is the case, and more evidence is needed for other mental health conditions such as anxiety or bipolar disorder....
Older adults with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) are at significantly higher risk of both muscle weakening and cardiovascular complications, say McMaster University researchers. Using gripping power as a measure, researchers compared the muscle strength of 63 participants from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging with T1D to a control group of 63 without diabetes, tracking them over...
JUNE 22ND, 2022 CONN HASTINGS MATERIALS, MEDICINE Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a “polymer brush” system that can capture and release proteins on using electrical stimulation. Protein therapeutics are increasingly in demand, but creating them efficiently is still a challenge. Isolating therapeutic proteins from the liquid surrounding the cells used...
